Books on Feminism
Amy has a book review of Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth. Sounds like a book I'd like to read. I have to start and finish Domestic Tranquility and Feminist Fantasies and a few other good reads by Spence Publishing. I'm a voracious reader, I just always have too many books waiting on my shelf to read.
I guess that is a good problem to have... Have you been reading anything you would recommend? I always love adding new books to my "to-read-soon bookshelf."
I guess that is a good problem to have... Have you been reading anything you would recommend? I always love adding new books to my "to-read-soon bookshelf."
posted by Crystal Paine at 2:41 PM
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I haven't read much on feminism lately (I started reading a general "history of feminism" anthology months ago but haven't finished it), but I've been reading through a couple of domestic reference books: Cheryl Mendelson's Home Comforts and Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking; both were Christmas gifts from family members.
I've been learning all kinds of useful kitchen & household tidbits from these books that I haven't seen elsewhere. The McGee book is practically a chemistry manual in some ways; I've enjoyed learning in detail about things like food spoilage times and the different chemical processes involved in making cheeses and ice cream. Mendelson's is a terrifically detailed manual on many aspects of homekeeping; I love doing laundry and her dozen or so chapters on fabric care and laundering would have been enough to get me to read this book even without the rest :)
That book sounds neat, the Home comfort book.
I recently read Jungle Pilot about Nate Saint and his boyhood and the story of his life. It was pretty amazing how he constructed airplanes before out of almost nothing! I also was reading "Is their life after housework" by Don Aslett and some other books
This title is not on femminism per se, but it is a must for any Christian young person considering her role relative to the world's culture- "Resident Aliens" by Stanley Hauerwas, a Biblical theologian at Duke. It's an amazing, edifying, challenging work.
I read the book "Daughters of Destiny" by Noelle Goforth. I would highly reccomend it. It is several different stories about women that upheld biblical womanhood in the face of huge difficulties and sometimes minus struggles. Very encouraging and uplifting.
Martha, I love Don Aslett! Isnt he hilarious????
He is so funny! When you can read a book about housecleaning and laugh and laugh, then the guy has to be special! I remember reading Ellie Kaye's book Shop, Save and Share once and just laughing and laughing also and thinking, "Someone is going to think I am nuts, laughing like this over a save money book!" It really does feel good to laugh though about stuff and you can see why the bible says "A Merry heart does good like medicine."
I just finished "Created to Be His Help Meet" a few weeks ago. I've started "A Wife After God's own Heart". I have "When God Pursues a Woman's Heart" waiting for me. I want to get "The Feminist Mistake" and "Walking as Mothers and Homemakers" next. Also I want to read "Fearlessly Feminine".
I also have a stack of books waiting for me! Right now I'm reading 1776 by David McCullough; after that, my list includes: So Much More and The Excellent Wife. I'm also halfway through Homemaking and Be Fruitful and Multiply. Gotta finish those! :-D
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